Religion: Keep It Up

Five Church of Christ ministers from Washington dropped in at the White
House last week to present Harry Truman with a large new Bible. The
President, who knows his Bible well, embellished the occasion with some
pertinent texts. "A great many people," he observed, "know of the
passage in Isaiah which reads, 'They shall beat their swords into
plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks.' But not many people
know that further on the Bible says, 'Beat your plowshares into swords
and your pruning hooks into spears.'" The second passage the President
quoted is from Joel (3:10), one of the minor...